The whole purpose of the new Windows 8 Start Screen is the live tiles, and the icons in your design are to small to show app updates. If you could come up with a better design than Microsoft did that incorporates live app updates then you should definitely transform it into an app.

Thanks for your feedback mate! Well this idea is based on just tiles (not live tiles) for the app shortcuts that could play the role of a metro start menu that microsoft removed from desktop's taskbar. I dont think they need to show updates since their purpose is different than the start ui live tiles. Due to their size also its something that is not allowing updates. But i like your proposal and your idea. Based on this you ask for a start menu that will show updates on live tiles right? This will make it much bigger though.. what do you think?

Thank you so much!! This is just a concept i made its not an app..perhaps i will develop it in the future as an app but unfortunately not now..you can use other 3rd party apps that bring back the normal start orb and menu from windows 7 if you want that..or if you just want this one, you ll have to wait a bit!

this is very cool,!!!!!!!!!!!!! if ms will use it, the os will get 5 times better than now, this is this is touch and user friendly but gives you much more "Classic" Windows Experience!!!! Lovin' it!!!

Hey buddy..thank you so much for your great comment..it really means a lot..as for ms i dont think so they ll use it..its official statement that they wont go back to start orb and menu..unfortunately but ok..we ll get used to the new way or use 3rd party softwares to bring it back!!

Thanks My friend!! Yes these are rounded corners but are not a part of the idea..these are just tips for the preview needs..nothing more..if those were a part of the concept and were workable then these angles were going to be squared so i wanted to show this difference between working and not working part..

thx bro..well you mean the desktops theme right? it doesnt fit with the metro ui..microsoft uses aero with metro but i dont think its a good idea..its something like little of this little of that..you can still check my other concepts. maybe you ll find something interesting!

is there i desktop on windows 8 ? all i have ever seen was this weird start menu or start screen as a touch screen but no desktop?i my self use windows 7 and mostly i juts use vert pc and i run windows xp but 8 don't look that good to me whats different?

Yes buddy of course..windows 8 logs in metro start ui but there is a tile that takes you to normal desktop screen! same as 7 with some changes e.g there is no more start orb + start menu..thats why i made a concept based on that idea! win 8 are awesome..it has some small bugs, some critical changes i dont like but till now it seems to be an awesome OS you should try it!

I like it. So long as it doesnt replace the fullscreen start and the only way to activate it is via an old fashioned start button on the taskbar or to snap the start menu to the side panes, like you would with an app.

thx mate definitely i believe microsoft has to bring back the old way of start menu on taskbar. I just thought that menu to be redesigned and match the other metro style of the OS, snap it to the sides like an app and work generally as the rest start UI. I prefer a start orb as it was on previous OS but also i ve added in the concept an easiest and fastest way with just double clicking anywhere on the desktop..this slides from the side the menu !!

This is what i believe too my friend!! most people agree with you so yeah..since they showed us how is the rest metro style i thought to add the same style where is really missing. And thats the start menu! Thanks for yr comment bro!!